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Water Quality Knowledge Impulse

Over the past four years, work in the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse has focused on learning more about the quality of groundwater and surface water, and the factors that affect that quality. The aim of the Water…

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Emerging contaminants
‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ – a partnership in water technology

More and more chemical substances are being produced and used all over the world. At the same time, increasing volumes of water are being abstracted for domestic, industrial…

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Processing technology for horticultural discharge water

The horticultural sector is confronted with the challenge of reducing the emission of plant protection products in its production process, thus preventing the negative impact on surface water…

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Sustainable use of freshwater resources
Consequences of intake of back-up Lek water on drinking water quality and dune ecology

As a result of climate change, low river discharge levels are occurring more frequently and for longer periods in the Meuse. This can structurally change the river’s water…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Improving water quality prognosis at surface water intake points for drinking water supply

In an earlier project, ‘Developments in water quality at surface water intake points for drinking water supply’, prognoses were made for water quality under the impact of climate…

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Emerging contaminants
AquaPriori

Studies into the effectiveness of water treatment techniques for priority substances involve high costs and are closely related to very specific conditions: treatment technique type, water type, substances present, and process conditions, such as residential times (distribution)…

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Experts

Frederic Béen PhD
Senior scientific researcher
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Frederic Béen PhD

Senior scientific researcher

Frederic Béen works as a researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. His research activities focus on the implementation of analytical and sampling techniques to monitor emerging contaminants…

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frederic.been@kwrwater.nl

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Arnaut van Loon PhD MSc
Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager
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Arnaut van Loon PhD MSc

Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager

Arnaut van Loon is a wide-ranging hydrogeologist, who is active as a researcher and project manager in the field of rewetting, freshwater management and groundwater protection. As an applied researcher,…

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arnaut.van.loon@kwrwater.nl

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Clean groundwater becoming rare

12 October 2020 — An analysis of a dataset with nationwide information on multiple pollutants in groundwater indicates that clean groundwater is…

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Wastewater epidemiology has grown up

24 May 2018 — In ten years wastewater epidemiology has developed into a mature field of knowledge which provides objective data on…

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Collaboration offers opportunities for clean water and sustainable agriculture

03 April 2018 — Agriculture and horticulture produce large-scale emissions of (artificial) fertilisers, plant protection products and veterinary pharmaceuticals, which hinder the…

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Groundwater Atlas for pesticides launched

15 October 2017 — This week saw not only the signing of the long-awaited coalition agreement but – at least as important…

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Dutch groundwater reflects wide use of chemicals

30 May 2017 — A national inventory of deep and shallow groundwater, conducted by KWR on the basis of provincial measurement data,…

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Forensic hydrology: Detecting traces in groundwater

22 March 2017 — Water contains a large number of dissolved substances. These include all non-synthetic elements and many synthetic organic micropollutants,…

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